Socrates Quotes

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Copy

• Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Wrong
  • Letter
  • DNA

• Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Bank

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Important
  • Find
  • Differences

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Different
  • Women
  • Country

• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Day
  • Evil

• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Point
  • Happen

• Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Different
  • Trying
  • She

• Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Mind
  • Waiting
  • Speak

• Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Done
  • Fear

• The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

  

  Socrates
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Body